A Thrilling Round-12 of Euro-League Basketball See Fenerbahce and Real Madrid Humbled
December 22, 2016 R K Gupta
Basketball, Euro-league, FIBA, FIBA EuropeIn Round-12 of Turkish Airlines Euro-League Basketball, Olympiacos Piraeus and Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz were the only teams to notch up road victories. While Olympiacos beat Zalgiris Kaunas 88-75, Baskonia scored a thrilling 92-91 on-the-buzzer victory over Russian Club Unics Kazan. The remaining 6 matches saw the home teams beating the visitors. While defending champions CSKA […]
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Quarterfinal Line-up Decided for UEFA Women’s Champions League for 2016-17 Season
December 20, 2016 R K Gupta
Football, UEFA women's Champions League, Women footballLast month, quarterfinalists for UEFA Women’s Championship League for the current season were decided after 16 teams played their second-leg matches on different venues across Europe. The result showed huge aggregate wins for several teams. French football Club Lyon topped among all others by blasting FC Zurich Frauen by 8-0 in the first leg and […]
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Axelsen and Tai Tzu Ying Win Singles Crowns at Dubai’s World Super-Series Tournament
December 20, 2016 R K Gupta
Badminton, Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen, Dubai’s World Super-Series Tournament, Taiwan’s Tai Tzu YingDenmark’s Viktor Axelsen and Taiwan’s Tai Tzu Ying have won the men and women’s singles championship honors at 2016 MetLife BWF World Super-series badminton tournament that concluded at Dubai on Sunday. While Axelsen needed to work hard against China’s Tian Houwei, Tai literally outplayed Korea’s Sung Ji Hyun to repeat her 2014 triumph against the […]
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Hero ISL Final: Kolkata Beat Kerala in Penalty Shoot-Out to Emerge as 2016 Champions
December 19, 2016 R K Gupta
ATK, Indian Football, Indian Sport News, ISLAtletico de Kolkata have lifted the winners’ trophy for the second time in the short three-year history of Hero Indian Super League. The match was literally the repeat of 2014 ISL final played at Mumbai, where Kolkata had defeated Kerala Blasters. At Kochi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sunday, ATK once again beat Kerala Blasters FC. […]
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2016 Dubai World Super-Series Finals: Viktor Axelsen Beats World No.1 Lee Chong Wei
December 19, 2016 R K Gupta
Badminton, Lee Chong Wei, Viktor AxelsenOn Friday, while India’s PV Sindhu accounted for women’s world no.1 Carolina Marin in Dubai’s World Super-Series Finals, Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen did the same in men’s singles. The Dane played a remarkably fast game against Malaysia’s world no.1 Lee Chong Wei and won for the first time in his 10 encounters with the celebrated Malaysian. […]
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England Become Part of Test Cricket History after Losing Wankhede Test by an Innings
December 18, 2016 R K Gupta
county cricket, Cricket, England CricketEngland losing the Mumbai test by an innings last week has a facet, other than India’s bowling and batting domination. It was only the third time in test history that a team had lost by an innings after scoring 400 or more runs. Incidentally, England featured in all three test matches and suffered the same […]
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Sindhu Avenges Her Olympic Loss by Beating Marin to Enter SF of World Super-Series Finals
December 18, 2016 R K Gupta
Badminton, Indian Badminton, Indian Sport News, P.V. SindhuOn the third day of BWF Dubai World Super-Series Finals, India’s PV Sindhu produced a performance of her lifetime. After her second day loss to China’s Sun Yu, Sindhu’s semifinal hopes looked bleak as she had been drawn to meet World and Olympic Champion Carolina Marin of Spain on December 16. No one gave Sindhu […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo Wins 2016 Ballon d’Or But the Best Footballer Award is Mired in Politics
December 18, 2016 R K Gupta
Cristiano Ronaldo, FIFA, Football, Portugal, Real MadridReal Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has beaten Lionel Messi for the 2016 Ballon d’Or. However, the general feeling points to the Ballon d’Or getting more and more controversial. The original Ballon d’Or, came into existence in 1956 and its ambit was restricted to just the European Footballers until 1995. The publishers of the bi-monthly France […]
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Juan Martin del Potro Could Be the Man To Watch In 2017 Tennis Season
December 15, 2016 R K Gupta
Argentina, ATP, Del Potro, TennisTowards the end of 2016 tennis season, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic lost his world no.1 ranking to Great Britain’s Andy Murray. These two are among modern tennis’s Big Four. The other two; the Swiss Roger Federer and Spaniard Rafael Nadal have hit a patchy form in the last couple of seasons. Nadal is now world no.9 […]
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Carolina Marin is the Costliest Buy in 2017 Season of Premier Badminton League
December 15, 2016 R K Gupta
BWF, Carolina Marin, Hyderabad Hunters, Indian Badminton, Indian Sport News, Premier Badminton League, World BadmintonThe 2013 inaugural edition of Indian Badminton League was rechristened as Premier Badminton League from 2016 onwards. Managed by Badminton Association of India, the 2016 season turned out to be highly successful and the new season is about to begin. With player auctions already completed in second week of November, the 2017 season gets underway […]
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| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PRANNOY H. S. | 62,410 |
| 2 | Viktor AXELSEN | 61,500 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 58,580 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 55,060 |
| 5 | Anthony Sinisuka GINTING | 52,440 |